The same question came up for me yesterday. I had to take system apart because a contractor will be in the room. I noticed that I had switched the speaker cables. For years I ran a c-j preamp that inverted polarity and got in the habit of doing this. Then I wondered if I had gotten confused about the BHK pre. Checked the manual and this is not mentioned on p. 3 in the section on connecting the pre to the power amp; a search for ‘polarity’ and ‘phase’ turns up nothing.

So; timm, where did you see that in the manual? If it’s true, it really should be highlighted – the manual for my c-j came with a big red insert pointing this out – since it’s easy for people to get this mixed up.

That is correct, it does not. And to be clear. Polarity is the proper technical term when discussing speaker +/- and phase is the proper technical term when discussing electronics. Though, they both mean the same thing: the wave inverting or non-inverting.

Yes magister. Sacrilege !!! I would have definitely purchased the BHK had it been around five years ago!! :).

I absolutely love this company. Good people=Good product=Good service!!

I’m still wondering if my non psaudio pre is in full working order after service. I have to wait on tubes for the phono stage as when the tubes are in the phono - the power supply fuse blows after 5-20 hrs of play. I pull tubes from phono and everything plays fine. I don’t use phono. My assumption - bad tube. Someone tell me if that is reasonable. I’m asking my online community why?? Well- ‘it was tested and working when we had it!!’ There is more - remote volume no longer works/remote mute does though. ‘Well we can’t prove we did or didn’t do something to cause that…’.

The worst part is they don’t understand that mistakes happen…it’s how you recover from them that matters.